Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-24 @ 5:40 PM
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2025-12-24 @ 5:40 PM
NCT ID:
NCT00316368
Brief Summary:
The purpose of this study is to determine, using echocardiography, whether bi-ventricular pacing improves the contractile force by resynchronizing both ventricles, thereby improving and/or correcting the paradoxical septal movement.
Primary Hypothesis:
* Bi-ventricular pacing post cardiac surgery will result in at least a 10% increase in cardiac index (CI) as compared with standard atrio-right ventricular pacing.
Secondary Hypothesis:
* Bi-ventricular pacing post cardiac surgery will result in at least a 10% increase in cardiac index (CI) as compared with atrio-left ventricular pacing and right atrium pacing.
Detailed Description:
Clinical trials done to date have focused on the efficacy of biventricular pacing (BVP) in the treatment of patients with congestive heart failure, Intraventricular conduction delay, dilated cardiomyopathies, and post cardiac surgery. However, studies done in post cardiac surgery patients are limited by their small sample size (4-22 patients with overall of 51 patients), non-randomized pacing protocol and by their inability to determine a definitive mechanism for the improved hemodynamics observed with BVP. Therefore, we propose to complete a pilot study aimed at determining both the magnitude of the hemodynamic benefit associated with BVP, if any. In addition, we will investigate changes in intra-ventricular septal motion as a possible mechanism for the previously observed changes in cardiac hemodynamics.
Study:
NCT00316368
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00316368